| Police ranks upset over interference by senior Government functionaries |
| Tuesday, 27 July 2010 | |
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(Editor's Note: The first incident involved the nephew of the Chancellor of the Judiciary, Carl Singh. The second incident involved a relative of the DPP, Ms. Hack) Junior ranks of the Guyana Police Force are concerned over what they termed interference by senior functionaries of the government in the execution of their duties. The ranks have cited two recent cases, one in which a traffic rank was upbraided by a senior functionary of the judiciary after she detained a relative of his for a traffic violation. And in another case, ranks of the Ruimveldt Police Station were instructed to return the firearm of a relative of another judicial senior, while they were still in the process of conducting investigations. This newspaper understands that in the first case, the traffic rank had stopped a vehicle on the East Coast of Demerara and upon checking, observed that the documents had expired. The rank invited the driver to the nearby Vigilance Police Station with a view to institute charges. However, the driver, using his cellular phone contacted a relative who happens to be a senior member of the judiciary. She advised the driver to let the person call the station to speak with an officer if he so desires. This angered the judicial functionary, who according to reports, contacted senior police officials. But what ticked off the rank and her colleagues is the fact that she was instructed by her superiors to report to the office of the senior judicial functionary. There she received a stern reprimand and was subsequently sent away. “It seems as though this person is the Commissioner of Police or the Commander, that he could have a rank report to him for a reprimand,” one East Coast Demerara rank told this newspaper. In the other case, this newspaper understands that a licence firearm holder who pulled out his weapon and threatened his tenant, had his firearm seized by the police at the Ruimveldt Police Station to facilitate their investigations. Hours later the ranks received instructions to return the man’s firearm. The incident is reminiscent of a similar one involving Retired Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe and former home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj. Slowe had lamented that there was some amount of interference in works of the police force by senior government functionaries. He had advised that police ranks are not mandated to obey an illegal order. Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee when told of the two incidents said that the matters will have to be investigated before he can pronounce on them. |
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